Telescopes Differentiated Activities
Telescopes Reading Comprehension
I have found that integrating whenever and wherever possible is a great way to make sure that I am addressing all of the Common Core Standards and giving my students enough practice to reach mastery in each skill. With outdated t

This is a 400+ slide PowerPoint presentation that describes what Galaxies are in a step by step process. Students then answer a series of challenge based questions to name the correct letter from a group of four pictures that best represents the galaxy described. A link to Hubble.org and sheet tha

This interactive WebQuest is designed to engage learners to better understand more about the Hubble telescope and its impact on space exploration. It includes various educational videos and websites (links provided). After researching information about the Hubble, students are prompted to create an

This Hubble Space Telescope Webquest and Video Worksheet is a 2-part activity using SpaceTelescope.org and the fantastic NOVA documentary of Invisible Universe Revealed that gives students an appreciation for the design of and work of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is known as the most scientific

Here are worksheets of questions for both parts of the NOVA documentary, Telescope- Hunting the Edge of Space. The questions come in the order the content appears within the documentary so that students can answer them while they watch and thus stay engaged. The documentary is a wonderful resource f

Telescopes Word Work
★vocabulary cards: use to sort & play matching game
★alphabetical order
★crossword
★word search
★unscramble & print
★cursive
★fill in the blank vocabulary context sentences
★fill in the blank paragraph using vocabulary words
★cloze reading maze
There are nine different

Telescope Clip Art : Explore the planets, stars, and galaxies in our universe with your budding astronomers using this pack of clipart. Motivate your students to learn about how our galaxy is growing and how the James Webb telescope is on a mission to discover the beginning of time. Create science r

The Inquisition of Galileo is a great example of a climactic conflict which grew out of this new era of forward thinking. The Church, which had enjoyed close to 1000 years of rule over Europe, saw this cultural shift as a move towards a dangerously secular world because they saw modern astronomy as

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This song goes with my resource called "Outer Space is the Place"
Here is more information on what is contained in the "Outer Space is the Place Unit":
This Outer Space unit is HUGE!!! Full of so many great ideas for your classroom! There are writing activities, vocabulary, and an awesome planet fl

Here is a worksheet of questions about the PBS NOVA documentary Invisible Universe Revealed. It chronicles the history of the Hubble Telescope, explaining how it was fixed and what discoveries have been made with it. This hour long documentary is viewable for free on the PBS website here: link. The

Looking for a way to introduce or review the topic of telescopes and lenses in your classroom? Check out this internet scavenger hunt! Students will use the scaffolded notes to guide their research throughout the website! This internet scavenger hunt can be used to introduce weather or as a review!

Telescopes Task Cards
There are twenty four task cards specifically addressing Telescopes as found in the Georgia Fourth Grade Social Studies standards. This includes a total of 24 task cards for your students to review telescopes. There is a copy-saving answer sheet/recording sheet provided, as we

The Hubble Space Telescope is a powerful telescope that orbits the Earth and can show us better pictures of faraway stars than any other telescope on Earth can do. It is named after Edwin Hubble, an astronomer who lived in the 1920s.
Contents : 3 pages
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Exercises
Key
The sample contains

Students draw a Venn diagram then cut out and sort titles, descriptions and pictures of reflecting and refracting telescopes.
Video resource links included on the answer key.
Other Science Cut & Paste Activiites for Interactive Notebooks can be found at: Sandy's Science Cut and Paste Activiti

Houghton Mifflin Science Textbook-Grade 4 Chapter 1 Lesson 1
This telescopes trifold is only meant to go along with the title of textbook listed above. There are 35 comprehension questions that come straight from the text, and a sort answer.
Key words: telescopes-Houghton Mifflin-space-sun-stars-p

What are telescopes and how do they work? This Concept Comparison Frame and Question Exploration asks the Essential Question: How do telescopes work, and compares refracting, reflecting and radio telescopes.
Framing Routines and Question Exploration Routines are instructional methods that teachers

How do astronomers figure out distances to far away objects? And how do astronomers estimate the sizes of planets, orbits, and other galaxies? One of the simplest methods is to use ratios of measurements.
The Telescope Lab is a great way to introduce students to methods used by astronomers to estim

Lesson Overview
How many galaxies can you see?
Electromagnetic spectrum 2 out of 3,
Telescopes are fantastic memory activity,
Telescopes in space activity,
Mini mind map and peer assessment,
Homework Chandra and Hubble tell me about them and what they have found.
Thank you for taking the time t

Engage your students in this difficult unit with this NO PREP resource is designed for the Unit on Infinite Series for AP Calculus BC and College Calculus 2.
Included are:
✓Guided notes with completed examples on convergence and divergence of the Telescoping and Geometric Series
✓Problem Se

Students research the different types of telescopes and create a booklet or PowerPoint advertising each type. A modified version of the project is also available for purchase for students with special needs.
Grading rubric is included.

Objectives
Describe the basic designs of the major types of optical telescopes.
Explain the advantages of reflecting telescopesfor astronomical use.
Discuss some of the current efforts to improve ground-based astronomy.
Distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of radio astronomy and interferomet

Use the telescope piece to see some of the wonders of the universe with the picture and fact pieces.Worksheet comes in color and black and white.
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This is a zipped folder containing a PDF and an editable version of each of the following:
- a lesson plan
- a set of instructions on making a telescope
- a set of instructions on making a kaleidoscope
- a set of instructions on making a pinhole camera (which can be seen in the preview)
You can

Ahoy matey! Celebrate Pirate day! Talk like a pirate, wear a pirate hat and get your kids to Arrrr! This is an easy craft activity for all ages. Includes a pirate hat pattern and a telescope that you wrap around a paper towel tube. Instructions included. Easy as saying Arrrr!
Images are provided in

This amazing ‘Space Theme’ lesson is…
• beautifully designed
• 4-pages in length and may be formatted into a 4-page booklet
• provided in both black & white and colored versions
• perfect for students learning English as a Second Language
• perfect for students whose first language is English

PLEASE READ - This lesson requires ActivInspire Software to open. Be sure that you have the software ActivInspire to open this file type before downloading or purchasing.
Use your Activ Board to have students compare and contrast two types of optical telescopes. Students can write in and draw simi

Time Travel through Space History
Space Exploration STEM Activity
1990’s Decade – The Hubble Space Telescope
Have your students read and discuss background information on the 1990’s Decade Hubble Space Telescope and engineer a prototype for a telescope. Students will apply the engineering design p

The JWST is a telescope that will be launched into space in 2018 to replace the Hubble Telescope.
This project is completely student driven where students are given possible research topics on the telescope and must develop their own project. The project offers a few examples of what students can

15 slide presentation that starts of with a 3-4 slides of his life, his discovers, and his observations with the telescope. Has real Galileo observation sketched and pictures of his telescope. Great for intro for HS Astronomy or MS Physical Science class. Has video of Galileo inclined plane experiem

Construct a life-size model of the Keck telescope's primary mirror. Keck's revolutionary primary mirror design called for 36 individual hexagonal segments to act as one giant mirror. This activity has two parts. In the first part, small mirror segment models are constructed from cardboard or posterb

Did you know your students can contribute directly to science? Thanks to crowdsourcing, your students can now look at real data from Hubble Space Telescope. They then help scientist classify the shape of the galaxies. This way they can process a large amount of data in a short time.
Your students wi

This is a set of leveled (3) readers that includes a set of questions.
Covers Standards: SC.1.E.5.1 Observe and discuss that there are more stars in the sky than anyone can easily count and that they are not scattered evenly in the sky.
SC.1.E.5.3 Investigate how magnifiers make things appear big

This assignment effectively enables your independent learner to learn about and show understanding of mixtures and compounds. Your student will use internet sites and your textbook to learn about physical and chemical change and mixtures and compounds. After learning independently, your student will

You can make a telescope just for fun, which is wonderful. You can also make a telescope for learning, which is even more wonderful as it makes the learning that much more fun to learn!
Getting into the habit of identifying critical information allows students to focus on what's important, versus g

In this science station, students read a passage about convex and concave mirros and lenses and build a telescope. Different groups will construct different telescopes and compare their models. Students then answer questions about the investigation within their science journals or on the included

This download is a PowerPoint and lesson plan explaining the limitations of non-optical telescopes due to resolving power and the Rayleigh Criterion. Included is a simple practical idea for testing the resolving power of the human eye.
This is lesson 4 / 12 from my Astrophysics / Cosmology course,

The Complete Guide to Building Your Own 8-inch Telescope gives step-by-step instructions using hundreds of illustrations on how you and your students can build a powerful telescope using simple tools available in every wood shop. Everything you need to know is covered fully, including how to use and

Students experiment creating a basic refracting telescope and a reflecting telescope without a case. This allows them to move the pieces and learn the principles of what is happening inside both types of optical telescopes. Great for reflection & refraction in physics or astronomy.
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Telescope Clip Art: Color your science classroom resources with this pack of telescope clip art. Create interactive notebooks that have an authentic look and feel to them. Design classroom posters to teach the various parts of the telescope. Make astronomy tests and quizzes easily.
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